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The "six rites" of marriage have their own characteristics.

Songzi City is located in the south-central part of Hubei Province, the south bank of Jingjiang River in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, and the transition zone between Nanshan District in southwest Hubei and Jianghan Plain. The beautiful scenery of the four fields makes people honest. As early as the Paleolithic, people lived and worked in compact communities. Thousands of years of history have accumulated rich and colorful folk culture and rich humanities and arts.

Nourished by the exquisite geographical environment and cultural atmosphere, Songzi's marriage custom inherits the ancient tradition and preserves the long and simple folk culture that has been precipitated for thousands of years. Experts from the Group Art Museum told the reporter that the ancient popular "Six Gifts" for marriage have been circulated in Songzi for more than 2,000 years, and their main contents are "receiving gifts" (that is, the man sent gifts to the woman's house to express his willingness to marry her), "asking the name, asking the eight characters" (that is, the man wrote a book to ask the woman's birthday) and "receiving words" (the man would ask his ancestors about the situation) and "getting a certificate" On the wedding day, the man goes to the woman's house, the woman's father greets him outside the door, and takes his son-in-law to the ancestral temple to worship his ancestors. The sedan chair or sedan chair stops outside the door, and the woman.

After the founding of New China, with the evolution of social fashion, after gradual innovation, perfection and simplification, some wedding customs still exist and are shared by the Han nationality, Tujia nationality and other ethnic groups in China.

There are more than 30 kinds of wedding ceremonies.

Compared with the simple wedding ceremony in modern society, the wedding customs of Songzi people are obviously richer and more interesting. This custom seems complicated, but each etiquette depicts a vivid and fragrant folk picture.

Songzi is located in the transitional zone between Wuling Mountain, Wushan Remnant Vein and Jianghan Plain, and the southwest mountainous area is the main settlement of Tujia people. Before the Qing Dynasty, young men and women here met in folk songs, invited each other with gestures, talked about the land, sang and danced, or made a lifelong commitment in a thatched cottage field or under a hillside tree. After returning home, marriage is a matchmaker's word, so there are as many as 30 wedding ceremonies, each with a song.

According to the research of experts in the group art museum, from the existing folk wedding ceremony songs, it is found that the ceremony or wedding ceremony of Songzi people's wedding custom began spontaneously from the eight characters, and there are roughly 38 ceremonies (or 38 ceremonies) in the middle, including tea ceremony, group annual report, seeking happiness, sewing clothes and returning to China after marriage. Namely: sending eight characters, giving gifts, opening boxes, seeking happiness, reporting dates, getting married, accompanying the tenth sister, opening a face, crying and marrying, saying goodbye, sending relatives away, upgrading the medal table, stopping horses and chariots, treating evil spirits, welcoming dowry, paying homage, drinking tea, drinking a cup of wine, entering the bridal chamber, making the bed, sitting on the bed, and accompanying the bride and groom. Every etiquette is proved by the songs sung so far.

With the evolution of social customs and the integration of nationalities, some etiquette customs have been innovated and simplified, but the main etiquette has been learned and used by people today. Some of these ceremonies are not common today, but they are very interesting.

Experts from the group art museum told reporters that, for example, "get married and get rich", on the wedding day, the man's family sent a sedan chair or car to the woman's house to meet the bride. The sedan chair arrived, and the woman closed the door to stop it. If the woman doesn't get married, the man will play drums and set off firecrackers to destroy it. If the man is impolite, the woman will make a fuss. Therefore, there is a saying that "look up and marry a girl, bow down and marry a daughter-in-law". When the bride gets into the sedan chair, she must change into the man's clothes. There is a saying that "you don't wear your mother's clothes when you go out, and you don't step on your mother's land when you get into a sedan chair." In some places, there is a custom of "pressing the sedan chair". When the sedan chair is not far from the man's house, it is a little thoughtless to ask for firecrackers and drum greetings, and sometimes it is also called sedan chair or scold the matchmaker. When crossing the bridge, crossing the street or crossing the bridge, the bearers play with the bride by "stopping the sedan chair" and beg for "benefits" (that is, red envelopes). Nowadays, cars are mostly used to pick up and drop off, and the etiquette is simple.

Marriage etiquette embodies truth, goodness and beauty.

The marriage customs of Songzi people come from life and reflect the truth, goodness and beauty in life.

Experts from the group art museum told reporters that the scenes described in the wedding etiquette are the real life of Tujia people and vivid images in practice. In the process of marriage, the communication between people, the laughter between people and the joy expressed between people fully show the yearning and pursuit of good things. The starting point is kindness and the purpose is to achieve a happy life and harmony. It can be said that it is a beautiful folk etiquette, a life phenomenon with positive significance, embodies the unity of truth, goodness and beauty, has a national character, and has a great influence on social, economic and cultural life. At the same time, it also inherits human civilization.